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The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, Part 2

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:59:46 -0500

Martin (Brian Benben) falls for a luscious actress (Mimi Rogers). Guest stars: David Bowie and Tom Berenger.

Dream On - Up the River

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:42:36 -0500

Martin’s (Brian Benben) girlfriend is arrested.

Dream On - Angst for the Memories

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:42:41 -0500

Martin’s (Brian Benben) play about his life with his ex-wife Judith turns into a nightmare.

Dream On - 555-Hell

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:42:39 -0500

A suicide hotline client accidentally dials Martin’s (Brian Benben) number.

Hollywood Squares - Eva Gabor, Redd Foxx and Tony Randall

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:01:01 -0400

Featuring Demond Wilson, Eva Gabor, Florence Henderson, George Gobel, Jonathan Winters, Otis Lacey, Paul Lynde, Peter Marshall, Redd Foxx, Robert Fuller, Tony Randall, and Scott Seaman.

The Name of the Game Is Five-Card Stud

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:12:15 -0500

A friendly game of poker turns into a high stakes, "lose your shirt'' game. Starring Brian Benben.

Here Comes the Bribe

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:28:50 -0400

Hoping for a favor, Martin (Brian Benben) persuades Toby (Denny Dillon) to marry her green-card-deficient boss.

Album Review - David Bowie: Lodger

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:21:46 -0400

David Bowie and Brian Eno ended the Berlin trilogy (two years after "Heroes") with Lodger, the musical odd-man-out. Where Low and "Heroes" ranged from gnarly avant-garde rock compositions to inorganic soundscapes and moods, Lodger took more of a conventional, fully written pop song direction with none of the loss of musical quality (not even counting the murky mixing), enjoyability, creativity, or listenability I think he really lost somewhat the next year. At the same time, where Bowie previously experimented with synthesizers, instrumentals and last-minute songwriting, his focused changed to experimenting with world music. No matter what, he recorded his arguably most underappreciated work, and it’s deserves as much a place as one of his best works as the previous two records.That being said, many elements of the previous two records perservered. Bowie's Krautrock influences reach their most-blatant, having drummer Dennis Davis directly perform Neu's motorik rhythm in the nicely executed swashbuckling tale of "Red Sails". The guitars are even reminiscent of Neu's timeless song "Hallogallo", although Michael Rother never recorded himself missing a note like Carlos Alomar embarrassingly does here. It only happens once, but that's enough to make me laugh; it was right in an instrumental section where I could hear him miss it very clearly.Little bits of experimentation in song composition present themselves: Bowie uses the same chord structure and pitch in "Fantastic Voyage" and "Boys Keep Swinging", but I doubt anybody notices this without paying attention; the songs are otherwise executed very differently, (one more appealingly than the other). Bowie also remakes the music of his early recording for Mott the Hoople, "All the Young Dudes", and plays it in reverse for "Move On", with properly frenetic results. Also the aforementioned "Boys Keep Swinging" has guitarist Carlos Alomar switching to drums and Dennis Davis playing bass. The result is actually a well-pla...